<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Although I am not expecting to see anything, when I am in the basin it is a rare day that I don't go up the Daisy Hill to look at Splendid, just to see. So far this year I have yet to see anything more than bubbling in Splendid's main vent. When the side boiler is surging, sometimes as high as 3 feet or so, there is fairly heavy runoff from the geyser. This is always brief and significantly less than what is often seen when Splendid is active.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And no, there certainly has not been an observed "false start" this year.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>